Re: HD spindown and fs cache writeback
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:03:44PM +0200, Elrond wrote:
> The ideal solution would be to configure programs for minimal disk access,
> and remove file-to-memory mapping from hard disks. Unfortunately, unix
> systems use memory maps for nearly every executable loaded, so this is
> impossible...
Nope. I don't want to configure 1000 applications. And I am on AC most
of the time. I want my machine to switch modes automatically.
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